The Advent Of Social Media Had Increased Fake Lifestyles - Nollywood Actor

Mike Ezuruonye, a prevalent Nollywood Actor, has said that the arrival of the social medja and the online networking had expanded phony ways of life among the adolescent.

"The appearance of the social media and online life has put superfluous weights on the adolescent of this nation to live phony ways of life that ought not have been the situation."
Ezuruonye told NAN in Lagos that he had had witnessed many fake lifestyles across the country over the years.

“You meet several people who feel they have to make an impression to be accepted by the public.

“On a personal level, I have experienced many fake-life habits where people claim to be something but turned out to the opposite.

“We are in a system where the social media has made people leading fake lifestyles to become products of both public success and private failure.

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Such people only show their successes but not their failures on the social media,” he said.

Maintaining a fake-lifestyle could be expensive and mentally tasking.

“There are a lot of people who drive flashy cars but do not have a house; people who prefer to stay in hotels where they owe bills but creating false images about themselves before the public.’’

Ezuruonye advised the public not to put undue pressures on themselves under the pretext that they wanted to maintain high societal profiles.

He warned that such could lead them to depression.

The actor who is also a director, however, disclosed that he used to live a fake-lifestyle while acting to create suspense among his fans.

“The truth is that I live a fake-lifestyle while acting to also interpret the cast assigned to me by my director.

“That may mean faking a character that is not really me,’’ he said.

The director said that for him to attain such class or level in real life would require him to work hard and be determined.